Bachelor of Arts [B.A] [Arts - Music] From University College Cork

The BA (Hons) Arts-Music combines two kinds of learning. First, students create music through solo and ensemble performance, improvisation, composition, aural training, applied work in education or in the computer music studio. Second, you investigate music in historical and contemporary cultures worldwide. Much of the degree is selected by you from a very wide set of choices.

As part of your degree you will gain experience and understanding of music in contemporary society. You will experience classical, popular, jazz, film, Irish traditional and world music. We integrate practical study alongside academic and theoretical courses. You will have a considerable choice of music-related options, allowing you to build up a distinctive profile as a composer, songwriter, performer, producer, educator or worker within the cultural and music industries.

Why Choose This Course

• This is the most musically diverse BA or BMus on offer in Ireland. The course is designed to reflect the true diversity and vitality of the contemporary musical world.
• If you are looking for a degree that is in tune with international trends and needs in music and rich in transferable skills, then the BA / BMus/ BA Arts-Music International is a very suitable choice.
• The Department is large enough to be exciting and surprising but still small enough to offer a friendly and supportive environment for all students, one where you?ll quickly feel at home.
• The new Arts work-placement module offers students a unique opportunity to take an optional work-placement module in second year. This module offers preparatory training, a work-placement organised by the UCC Careers Office and post-placement follow up.

• The BA Arts-Music (International) offers you the extra opportunity to study Music in an approved foreign university.?

Careers

BA (Hons) Arts - Music graduates have a great record for finding employment. Employers recognise Music degrees as being particularly rich in transferable skills, and varied in breadth of learning, a facet reinforced by inclusion of a second subject area taken to graduate level. The result is a graduate who is both versatile and very broadly competent. BMus graduates are highly trained and self-reliant specialists, with the strength of an additional year?s maturation and expertise. They are in much demand professionally.

BA Arts-Music graduates work in a variety of settings including areas such as:

• performing musicians
• music teachers
• the music business
• arts and cultural heritage management
• film/tv/radio